Just to wrap this up, and to totally change the tone, my hops were HUGE, but a huge failure. I ended up picking them all, and the mostly looked good, but a lot of the tops had a big aphid / ladybug battle going on. What happened, I think, is I took to long to harvest, and they just got infested. We had a really cool (temp) summer here. I don't know if that contributed? Anyway, with the new addition, I had no time to brew any wet hop ales, so I was going to give them to someone, and they never collected, so they all got trashed.

My wife did, however make some cool hop vine wreathes, so it wasn't a total loss.

Will